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tpowa

Developer

From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,331

Re: Regarding repository shuffle.

thats the nature of the main ftp server, use a different one or yuo have to live with this

Taylor

Member

From: Clovis California USA

Registered: 2007-07-09

Posts: 49

Re: Regarding repository shuffle.

*narf* yesterday it works, und today i get this:

Fehler: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from ftp.archlinux.org : Protocol error

just wait..the problem will go away by itself

loserMcloser

Member

From: Canada

Registered: 2004-12-15

Posts: 139

Re: Regarding repository shuffle.

How about abs ?

# abs
Connected to cvs.archlinux.org
Server message: Unknown collection "core"
Skipping collection core/cvs
Finished successfully

It's quite easy to change the configs in /etc/abs. You can copy supfile.arch to supfile.core, change "arch" to "core" (also do the same in supfile.testing) and change arch to core in abs.conf. I deleted /var/abs subdirectories (except local) and run abs. Everything has been recreated nicely.

BTW don't be surprised that *.core file is red in mc :-)

That's exactly what I had done ;-) but for some reason the cvs server couldn't find "core". I just posted to make sure the devs knew about this, which they did according to ise, and not too long after it was fixed and started working fine.

azerty

Member

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 90

Website

Re: Regarding repository shuffle.

Are we able to reuse the FTP-Installation ISOs now?

Why did the announcement state to not use FTP-Install but Base? Using Base you'd also have to edit the config, or not?

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Lone_Wolf

Administrator

From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,854

Re: Regarding repository shuffle.

No, ftp-install is still broken and will be until new isos are released.

With the base install cd you install a working version of arch and boot it.
After you have booted your installed arch the first time you can update pacman and edit the pacman.conf and /etc/pacman.d/ so you can continue installing other things.

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brain0

Developer

From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: Regarding repository shuffle.

Changing pacman.conf is not absolutely necessary. pacman will still work and think that core is called current. We will keep those symlinks for compatibility for a while, so it won't break for now.